Re: [ethereal-users] ucd-snmp libraries

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:30:43PM -0400, H. Erik Hia wrote:
> 1) What advantage does --enable-snmp=yes provide?

Symbolic decoding of OIDs (i.e, showing them as names rather than just
as strings of numbers, e.g. showing 1.3.6.1.2.1 as being
".iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2"), decoding of variable bindings
according to the type the MIBs give (so that, for example, it can show
"enumerated" values, e.g.  showing 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.3.N, a/k/a
".iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifType.N",
as "ethernetCsmacd(6)" rather than just "6"), and other things that
require information that comes from MIBs.

> 2) Has anyone been able to get the latest versions of ucd-snmp and
> ethereal to work together?

Yes.  I build and installed 4.1.2 from source on my FreeBSD 3.4 system,
and Ethereal built just fine.

In what directory did the UCD SNMP library you built from source get
installed?  If it's in "/usr/local/lib", then perhaps the problem is
that you the 4.1.1 library in "/usr/lib" and the 4.1.2 in
"/usr/local/lib"; if Ethereal is compiling with the 4.1.2 header files
but getting linked with the 4.1.1 in "/usr/lib" rather than the 4.1.2 in
"/usr/local/lib", this might cause the "snmp_set_full_objid" problem, at
least.